Famous quotes containing the words bank, reserve, appointed and/or federal:

“Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.”—Oscar Wilde (18541900)

“I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst of frivolous amusements, in idleness, in tenderness and in pain, stored up by me without my divining its destination or even its survival, as the seed has in reserve all the ingredients which will nourish the plant.”—Marcel Proust (18711922)

“Like pilgrims to th appointed place we tend;The worlds an inn, and death the journeys end.”—John Dryden (16311700)

“The proposed Constitution ... is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both.”—James Madison (17511836)